Abstract:
A hot-rolling plant (50) for the production of metal strips comprising a roughing stand (2), a reheating furnace (3) or a maintenance tunnel for maintaining the temperature of the product, a pre-finishing mill train (4), comprising three or four stands, a finishing mill train (5), comprising two or three stands, for finishing the product, in which the work rolls of one stand are provided with their own motor drive, independent one from each other, so as to allow the peripheral speeds of both of said work rolls to be autonomously varied under rolling load.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for processing a metal slab or billet, in which the slab or billet is passed between a set of rotating rolls of a rolling mill stand to roll the slab. According to the invention, the rolls of the rolling mill stand have a different peripheral velocity, the difference in peripheral velocity amounting to at least 10% and at most 100%, and the thickness of the slab being reduced by at most 15% for each pass or the diameter of the billet in the plane of the rolls being reduced by at most 15%. The invention also relates to a plate or billet produced using the method, and to the use of this plate or billet.
Abstract:
A refractory metal plate is provided. The plate has a center, a thickness, an edge, a top surface and a bottom surface, and has a crystallographic texture (as characterized by through thickness gradient, banding severity; and variation across the plate, for each of the texture components 100//ND and 111//ND, which is substantially uniform throughout the plate.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for processing a continuously cast metal slab or strip, in which the slab or strip is passed between a set of rotating rolls of a rolling mill stand in order to roll the slab or strip. According to the invention, the rolls of the rolling mill stand have different peripheral velocities, and the difference in peripheral velocity is at least 5% and at most 100%, and the thickness of the slab or strip is reduced by at most 15% for each pass. The invention also relates to metal plate or strip produced using this method.
Abstract:
The aim of the invention is to improve known roll stands (10) which are characterized by working rolls (1,2) of various diameters, in such a way that a strip is obtained which is largely free of tensions and undulations, has a desired strip profile superelevation, and can be used approximately universally. To this end, the support rolls (3,4) and the working rolls (1,2) are arranged in an axially displaceable manner in the roll stand (10,11), the position of at least one of the working rolls (1,2) can be adjusted in the discharge direction (7) of the roll strip (6), and that the support rolls (3,4) and the working rolls (1,2) are provided with a curved contour (continuously variable crown which is determined by an at least second order polynomial) which extends essentially over the whole surface length of the roll, said contours being staggered by 180° in relation to each other and respectively embodied in such a way that both contours of the working rolls (1,2) complete each other to form a symmetrical contour of the roll gap.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for processing a continuously cast metal slab or strip, in which the slab or strip is passed between a set of rotating rolls of a rolling mill stand in order to roll the slab or strip. According to the invention, the rolls of the rolling mill stand have different peripheral velocities, and the difference in peripheral velocity is at least 5% and at most 100%, and the thickness of the slab or strip is reduced by at most 15% for each pass. The invention also relates to metal plate or strip produced using this method.
Abstract:
A method of shaping a metal strip in a hot rolling installation including arranged one after another finishing train, cooling section, and coiler, with the method including providing, in a region between an end of the cooling section and the coiler, rolls for reducing a strip thickness, and reducing the thickness of the strip after the strip leaves the cooling section; and an installation for effecting the method.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for refining the domain wall spacing of a grain-oriented silicon steel strip by mechanical scribing and by employing more than one row of staggered small diameter scribing rolls arranged to scribe a different portion of the surface of the strip in a manner that the entire surface of the strip is scribed and in which each row of scribing rolls co-operate with an anvil roll to support the strip.
Abstract:
A method of pressure bonding composite material comprises passing a pair of strips through a nip defined between a pair of abutting rolls. At least one of a composite material which is pressure bonded as a result of passage through the nip and one of the strips which are to be introduced into the nip is wrapped around an associated roll. While the composite material or the strip is so disposed, the pair of rolls are driven at differential peripheral speeds, thereby controlling the draft of each strip.
Abstract:
A machine for processing sheet and strip material such as a temper bending machine or a rolling mill has a pair of work rolls between which the material is processed and at least one of the rolls is engaged along its length by a plurality of casters which are supported on a flexible beam extending parallel to the axis of the roll. Means, conveniently in the form of hydraulic piston and cylinder assemblies are provided for flexing the beam to apply forces to the roll which oppose other forces which act on the roll during processing. In this way any tendency of the roll to bend and thereby produce sheet or strip of nonuniform shape is overcome.